2026 LOGCO Otley Cycle Races: preview and startlists
Affectionately known as the criterium world championships, Otley returns on Wednesday night (1 July) as round four of the Rapha Super-League and round two of the National Circuit Series, with newly crowned champions, series leaders and domestic racing’s fastest finishers set for one of the great nights of the British calendar.
There are few nights in British circuit racing quite like Otley. Affectionately known as the criterium world championships, it is noise funnelled through a Yorkshire market town: riders launched uphill past packed pavements, the light beginning to fade, and that final corner taken on nerve as much as skill. On Wednesday, the Rapha Super-League arrives in Yorkshire for one of the domestic calendar’s defining fixtures: the LOGCO Otley Cycle Races.
Featured image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
What is it?
Set on a 2km circuit around the market town on the edge of the Nidderdale National Landscape 10 miles northwest of Leeds, the Otley Grand Prix is a real festival of cycling with large crowds bringing a vibrant atmosphere throughout the night with a full programme of support races starting in the afternoon ahead of the two showpiece events—the Santini Women’s Otley Grand Prix and the Martin House Open Otley Grand Prix, both raced over the now-familiar 50-minute format.
Dating back to 1985, the race has a roll of honour almost unmatched in terms of domestic races, helping to launch the careers of 2005 victor Mark Cavendish and current WorldTour professional Bob Donaldson, who took the honours in 2023, with household names such as Adam Blythe, Russell Downing, and Matt Bostock also among those to have raised their arms down the famous finishing straight.
First held in 2013, the women’s race has built an equally impressive roll of honour including Elinor Barker and Jess Roberts, while hometown hero Lizzie Deignan, who organises the race for the first time this year, reigned victorious in 2014.
Last year Wheelbase CabTech Castelli’s Tim Shoreman took the victory in one of the most controversial finishes to a circuit race in recent memory, the powerful Scot the beneficiary of Will Tidball’s relegation as he crossed the line first but was judged to have impeded a visibly angry Matt Bostock in the finishing straight. Leeds’ own Robyn Clay won the women’s edition, an emotional victory for the now WorldTour professional in a race her father won for three consecutive editions in the 1990s.
Robyn Clay (DAS-Hutchinson) wins in 2025. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
The race also holds a special place in the hearts of both riders and fans as the first time the newly crowned national champions are able to race in the famous blue and red bands—a moment to savour as they are the first names called to the grid in front of the onlooking fans awaiting the new-look jersey.
The halfway point of the Rapha Super-League
Both races form Round Four of the revamped Rapha Super-League, the halfway point of the competition. Tom Armstrong leads the way in the open standings after making the winning breaks at both the CiCLE Classic and Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix, with newly crowned national champion Matt Bostock trailing him by just 21 points, a margin he will be confident of cutting on a circuit where he has won twice before.
In the women’s competition 21-year-old Scot Morven Yeoman holds a commanding lead over teammate Noémie Thomson, who is absent from this round, with a host of riders tightly bunched behind, including Lucy Lee and Maddie Cooper, each knowing a maximum haul of 31 points will go a long way to their season-long aspirations and the £1,000 prize awarded to the winner.
The race also doubles up as the second round of the National Circuit Series, with Bostock emerging the winner in the open race in Colne, while Emma Jeffers, the women’s winner in Lancashire, is absent, meaning Megan Barker will line up in the national champion’s jersey as the de facto series leader.
Route
Anti-clockwise and 2km in length, the circuit is one of the icons of criterium racing in Britain, offering a long, mostly uphill start where the strongest riders can make the difference, before dropping back onto the town for a final corner that is taken at speeds that have to be seen to be believed.
After leaving the start / finish line, the riders are straight into the action after a small chicane takes them onto Burras Lane, the steepest climb on the course which is often at the centre of the action. After a small descent the elevation then kicks up again towards the motorway bridge for a long energy-sapping drag to the highest point on the circuit, its impact deepening as the race goes on.
From here the riders turn left twice onto the poorly surfaced, tree-lined Birdcage Walk. A flat road, it is again a place where the strongest riders can make the difference, positioning particularly important towards the end of the night as the light begins to fade.
A further left turn drops the riders on a fast descent down to the town centre where the final corner, just 190m from the finish line, has been described by 2015 winner Dan McLay as “the best last corner in cycling”—taken correctly it can set you up for victory, but get it wrong and it could spell disaster.
The circuit has tended to favour bunch sprints, although the strongest riders and teams could split the race up, particularly with the presence of the television motorbike at the front of the race.
Timings
Santini Women’s Otley Grand Prix – 19.25
Martin House Open Otley Grand Prix – 20.35
How to follow
Subscribers to Monument TV will be able to watch a live stream of the race, with coverage of both the Santini Women’s Otley Grand Prix and the Martin House Open Otley Grand Prix available on Wednesday evening.
The British Continental will also have a full report from Otley online on Wednesday night, including results and reaction from one of the landmark events of the British criterium season.
Riders to watch
Women’s
A bumper field of 100 riders, testament to the race’s status, line up for the women’s race with new national champion, and one half of circuit racing’s power couple, Megan Barker (Rapha Cycling Club) heading the field. With only Amy Perryman as a teammate, the Welsh rider rode a smart race in Aberystwyth, biding her time and picking which moves to follow, a tactic which paid off as she took the victory courtesy of a long, powerful sprint. Despite her record here being surprisingly average, she will be full of confidence and buoyed by the jersey, and with another bunch sprint a likely scenario, she starts as one of the favourites.
Meg Barker. Image: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Handsling Alba Development RT start the race with eight riders, led by Kate Richardson and Izzy Sharp, both of whom were active in trying to break up the race on Friday evening. Using their collective strength Bob Lyons’ team were able to achieve that scenario in the City of London Nocturne and they will look to employ similar tactics here without a sprinter capable of matching the fastest riders in a bunch gallop—Maddie Leech, second last year, absent. The team’s strength in depth is impressive however, with last year’s breakthrough star Maddie Cooper and first-year U23 Arabella Blackburn sprinting well in Colne and looking strong throughout their hour on the Welsh coast.
DAS–Hutchinson have won this race for the past three years and bring a strong squad of seven riders looking to make it four in a row. The UCI team were largely anonymous in Aberystwyth on Friday, entering only two riders as they focused on the road race, but they appear to have all bases covered this time around, with a bunch sprint favouring 2022 winner Sophie Lewis and Rapha Super-League leader Morven Yeoman, herself in possession of a strong turn of speed, while the likes of Tammy Miller, a strong time triallist and winner of the Wentworth Woodhouse Grand Prix, and Curlew Cup winner Lucy Lee are available to cover any moves that make their way up the road.
Anna Morris wins at Ilkley last year. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
As has often been proved before however, having a strong team is not everything in the short, sharp world of criterium racing—Anna Morris (Private Member) a fine example of that—the Welsh track star romping to victory in four rounds of the National Circuit Series last year and pushing eventual Rapha Super-League winner Robyn Clay the whole way in that competition. Fast in a sprint, tactically astute, and one of the strongest riders on the grid, the 30-year-old is among the favourites to add the Otley Grand Prix to an already glittering palmares.
Jess Roberts (Private Member) is another rider whose black skinsuit will do little to help her go under the radar, her performance in Aberystwyth not yielding a result, but demonstrating that she is back to her brilliant best and is a rider to watch as the season continues. She seemed unwilling to settle for a sprint on Friday, eventually finishing tenth, so similar tactics may ensue here.
Esther Wong (Team Farto-BTC) returns to the UK after the Irish National Championships and a series of UCI races in Spain, the 20-year-old fourth here as a junior two years ago when part of the all-conquering Shibden Apex team. Immensely talented, the question is if she can adapt to the nature of both criterium and British racing after close to a year away.
Eilidh Shaw. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
Eilidh Shaw (UAE Development Team) makes her Otley debut, the 21-year-old missing the race in 2024, the year she won both the National Road and Circuit Series. A lot has changed since then for the Scot, who has experienced the world’s biggest U23 races like the Tour de l’Avenir in a UCI-led race programme. A very tactically astute ride led to a bronze medal on Friday night, demonstrating she has lost none of her speed with the race ending in a bunch sprint.
As for the outsiders, Monica Greenwood is back in the distinctive orange of the Macclesfield Wheelers after two years with Team Coop-Repsol, the 37-year-old active in the closing stages in Aberystwyth, as was Jo Tindley (Smurfit Westrock CT), two years her senior—the Lincoln rider quietly having a strong season, proving age is no barrier. Greenwood’s former teammate April Tacey (Hitec Products-Fluid Control) and Isabel Mayes (Redchilli Bikes O’Shea Racing) are two other riders who had the legs to make the race hard for the sprinters on Friday and could play a similar card on Wednesday.
Open
There may be 130 names on the startlist of the open race but it centres very much around one man—the newly crowned national champion and other half of circuit racing’s power couple—Matt Bostock. The Rapha Cycling Club rider has proved close to unstoppable in recent seasons and appears to be getting even stronger—his performance on Friday night a real tour de force where he refused to be beaten.
Matt Bostock. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
The fastest sprinter in the field on paper, the Manxman will also have the luxury of Ollie Wood as a teammate, his fellow Great Britain track team star in the form of his life on the road, backing up his Lincoln Grand Prix success with a miraculous sixth place in the National Road Race Championship, where he went head-to-head with some of the WorldTour’s strongest riders and emerged superior. There is a lot of difference between a 180km road race and hour-long criterium however, Wood not looking quite so sharp on the short circuits this season so far, but he is still a rider few will want to see escape up the road given the breadth of his engine.
Tim Shoreman (Wheelbase CabTech Castelli) won this race in controversial circumstances 12 months ago, although the Commonwealth Games-bound Scot has not looked on his best form during his fleeting road appearances so far this season, and has withdrawn from the startlist. Instead, the Cumbrian squad may try and break up the race courtesy of Super-League leader and defending National Circuit Series champion Tom Armstrong, himself no slouch in a sprint, or Scot Aaron King, who announced himself to the top table of circuit racing via a second place to Bostock in Colne.
Frank Longstaff (DAS Richardsons) caused shockwaves as the surprise winner of the Cambridge Criterium in 2024 with a long-range sprint, the track rider’s ability to hold top speed for a long period of time well suited to the finish of the Otley circuit. However, he will need to survive the pressure exerted on the long climb to capitalise on that. Much improved across the more technical circuits over 2025, a win in Otley would be another step up, but one the Colchester rider is capable of.
Will Tidball at the finish of last year’s race. Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
Another sprinter to keep tabs on is Will Tidball (Velo Club Villefranche Beaujolais), who returns to the scene of the race he lost after crossing the line a year ago, the former scratch race world champion hoping to get to stand on the top step of the podium this time around.
JAKROO Handsling bring a star-studded team of eight riders with the potential to blow the race apart. Will Truelove and Rowan Baker are now somewhat veterans of the National A scene having finished at the sharp end of the biggest road races in the UK, while the young trio of Dylan Belton Owen, Harrison Dainty, and Oliver Dawson have been in excellent form so far this year at both National and UCI level. The team’s plan will be to make the race hard, something that will play into the hands of RideRevolution Coaching pairing Gabe Dellar and national hill climb champion Harry MacFarlane who will not want the sprinters to have it all their own way.
Away from the Elite Development Teams there are some fascinating entrants on the startlist, from criterium specialists to WorldTour professionals.
Alec Briggs (Tekkerz CC) is very much the former, bringing a strong sprint and excellent bike handling to the party as he looks to build on his third place finish at the City of London Nocturne a fortnight ago and take his first National Circuit Series round since Newark three years ago. To do that however he will have to overcome Nottingham’s Josh Giddings (Lotto Intermarché). Now in his second year as a professional and a key lead-out rider for the Belgian team, he will need to adapt his style of racing to the chaos of a British criterium, with WorldTour riders often able to dictate the direction of the race from the head of affairs.
Cam Mason. Image: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
2025 national champion Cam Mason (Alpecin-PremierTech Development Team) has shown over the past two seasons that he is not only a world-class cyclocross rider, but an excellent criterium one too—backing up his national title with a host of excellent displays when his calendar allows. In possession of excellent bike handling coupled with an ability to sprint out of corners with close to unmatched power, the Scot may find the flowing nature of the final kilometre is not one that plays to his strengths.
Another rider with a strong cyclocross background is former junior national champion Seb Grindley (Lidl-Trek Future Racing), who is on the comeback trail in 2026 after the horror crash in last year’s national road race championship put him on the sidelines for the remainder of the season. Having finished both the Giro Next Gen and Sunday’s road race, the junior world championship silver medallist is one to look out for.
Finally, a trio of riders extend their trip back to Britain for the National Championships from France, led by James Hartley (Team Bricquebec Cotentin), who has stepped up a level since leaving Cycling Sheffield alongside Max Krasinski two years ago, using his fast finish at the end of a demanding race to elevate himself to sixth in the N1 Coupe de France standings. Toby Barnes (UV Aube) won the shortened Sheffield Grand Prix in 2024 and the cyclocross national championship silver medallist from January arrives in good form having won the Grand Prix du Val de Villé earlier in June across the Channel.
There are few nights in British circuit racing quite like Otley. Affectionately known as the criterium world championships, it is noise funnelled through a Yorkshire market town: riders launched uphill past packed pavements, the light beginning to fade, and that final corner taken on nerve as much as skill. On Wednesday, the Rapha Super-League arrives in Yorkshire for one of the domestic calendar’s defining fixtures: the LOGCO Otley Cycle Races.
Featured image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
What is it?
Set on a 2km circuit around the market town on the edge of the Nidderdale National Landscape 10 miles northwest of Leeds, the Otley Grand Prix is a real festival of cycling with large crowds bringing a vibrant atmosphere throughout the night with a full programme of support races starting in the afternoon ahead of the two showpiece events—the Santini Women’s Otley Grand Prix and the Martin House Open Otley Grand Prix, both raced over the now-familiar 50-minute format.
Dating back to 1985, the race has a roll of honour almost unmatched in terms of domestic races, helping to launch the careers of 2005 victor Mark Cavendish and current WorldTour professional Bob Donaldson, who took the honours in 2023, with household names such as Adam Blythe, Russell Downing, and Matt Bostock also among those to have raised their arms down the famous finishing straight.
First held in 2013, the women’s race has built an equally impressive roll of honour including Elinor Barker and Jess Roberts, while hometown hero Lizzie Deignan, who organises the race for the first time this year, reigned victorious in 2014.
Last year Wheelbase CabTech Castelli’s Tim Shoreman took the victory in one of the most controversial finishes to a circuit race in recent memory, the powerful Scot the beneficiary of Will Tidball’s relegation as he crossed the line first but was judged to have impeded a visibly angry Matt Bostock in the finishing straight. Leeds’ own Robyn Clay won the women’s edition, an emotional victory for the now WorldTour professional in a race her father won for three consecutive editions in the 1990s.
The race also holds a special place in the hearts of both riders and fans as the first time the newly crowned national champions are able to race in the famous blue and red bands—a moment to savour as they are the first names called to the grid in front of the onlooking fans awaiting the new-look jersey.
The halfway point of the Rapha Super-League
Both races form Round Four of the revamped Rapha Super-League, the halfway point of the competition. Tom Armstrong leads the way in the open standings after making the winning breaks at both the CiCLE Classic and Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix, with newly crowned national champion Matt Bostock trailing him by just 21 points, a margin he will be confident of cutting on a circuit where he has won twice before.
In the women’s competition 21-year-old Scot Morven Yeoman holds a commanding lead over teammate Noémie Thomson, who is absent from this round, with a host of riders tightly bunched behind, including Lucy Lee and Maddie Cooper, each knowing a maximum haul of 31 points will go a long way to their season-long aspirations and the £1,000 prize awarded to the winner.
The race also doubles up as the second round of the National Circuit Series, with Bostock emerging the winner in the open race in Colne, while Emma Jeffers, the women’s winner in Lancashire, is absent, meaning Megan Barker will line up in the national champion’s jersey as the de facto series leader.
Route
Anti-clockwise and 2km in length, the circuit is one of the icons of criterium racing in Britain, offering a long, mostly uphill start where the strongest riders can make the difference, before dropping back onto the town for a final corner that is taken at speeds that have to be seen to be believed.
After leaving the start / finish line, the riders are straight into the action after a small chicane takes them onto Burras Lane, the steepest climb on the course which is often at the centre of the action. After a small descent the elevation then kicks up again towards the motorway bridge for a long energy-sapping drag to the highest point on the circuit, its impact deepening as the race goes on.
From here the riders turn left twice onto the poorly surfaced, tree-lined Birdcage Walk. A flat road, it is again a place where the strongest riders can make the difference, positioning particularly important towards the end of the night as the light begins to fade.
A further left turn drops the riders on a fast descent down to the town centre where the final corner, just 190m from the finish line, has been described by 2015 winner Dan McLay as “the best last corner in cycling”—taken correctly it can set you up for victory, but get it wrong and it could spell disaster.
The circuit has tended to favour bunch sprints, although the strongest riders and teams could split the race up, particularly with the presence of the television motorbike at the front of the race.
Timings
How to follow
Subscribers to Monument TV will be able to watch a live stream of the race, with coverage of both the Santini Women’s Otley Grand Prix and the Martin House Open Otley Grand Prix available on Wednesday evening.
The British Continental will also have a full report from Otley online on Wednesday night, including results and reaction from one of the landmark events of the British criterium season.
Riders to watch
Women’s
A bumper field of 100 riders, testament to the race’s status, line up for the women’s race with new national champion, and one half of circuit racing’s power couple, Megan Barker (Rapha Cycling Club) heading the field. With only Amy Perryman as a teammate, the Welsh rider rode a smart race in Aberystwyth, biding her time and picking which moves to follow, a tactic which paid off as she took the victory courtesy of a long, powerful sprint. Despite her record here being surprisingly average, she will be full of confidence and buoyed by the jersey, and with another bunch sprint a likely scenario, she starts as one of the favourites.
Handsling Alba Development RT start the race with eight riders, led by Kate Richardson and Izzy Sharp, both of whom were active in trying to break up the race on Friday evening. Using their collective strength Bob Lyons’ team were able to achieve that scenario in the City of London Nocturne and they will look to employ similar tactics here without a sprinter capable of matching the fastest riders in a bunch gallop—Maddie Leech, second last year, absent. The team’s strength in depth is impressive however, with last year’s breakthrough star Maddie Cooper and first-year U23 Arabella Blackburn sprinting well in Colne and looking strong throughout their hour on the Welsh coast.
DAS–Hutchinson have won this race for the past three years and bring a strong squad of seven riders looking to make it four in a row. The UCI team were largely anonymous in Aberystwyth on Friday, entering only two riders as they focused on the road race, but they appear to have all bases covered this time around, with a bunch sprint favouring 2022 winner Sophie Lewis and Rapha Super-League leader Morven Yeoman, herself in possession of a strong turn of speed, while the likes of Tammy Miller, a strong time triallist and winner of the Wentworth Woodhouse Grand Prix, and Curlew Cup winner Lucy Lee are available to cover any moves that make their way up the road.
As has often been proved before however, having a strong team is not everything in the short, sharp world of criterium racing—Anna Morris (Private Member) a fine example of that—the Welsh track star romping to victory in four rounds of the National Circuit Series last year and pushing eventual Rapha Super-League winner Robyn Clay the whole way in that competition. Fast in a sprint, tactically astute, and one of the strongest riders on the grid, the 30-year-old is among the favourites to add the Otley Grand Prix to an already glittering palmares.
Jess Roberts (Private Member) is another rider whose black skinsuit will do little to help her go under the radar, her performance in Aberystwyth not yielding a result, but demonstrating that she is back to her brilliant best and is a rider to watch as the season continues. She seemed unwilling to settle for a sprint on Friday, eventually finishing tenth, so similar tactics may ensue here.
Esther Wong (Team Farto-BTC) returns to the UK after the Irish National Championships and a series of UCI races in Spain, the 20-year-old fourth here as a junior two years ago when part of the all-conquering Shibden Apex team. Immensely talented, the question is if she can adapt to the nature of both criterium and British racing after close to a year away.
Eilidh Shaw (UAE Development Team) makes her Otley debut, the 21-year-old missing the race in 2024, the year she won both the National Road and Circuit Series. A lot has changed since then for the Scot, who has experienced the world’s biggest U23 races like the Tour de l’Avenir in a UCI-led race programme. A very tactically astute ride led to a bronze medal on Friday night, demonstrating she has lost none of her speed with the race ending in a bunch sprint.
As for the outsiders, Monica Greenwood is back in the distinctive orange of the Macclesfield Wheelers after two years with Team Coop-Repsol, the 37-year-old active in the closing stages in Aberystwyth, as was Jo Tindley (Smurfit Westrock CT), two years her senior—the Lincoln rider quietly having a strong season, proving age is no barrier. Greenwood’s former teammate April Tacey (Hitec Products-Fluid Control) and Isabel Mayes (Redchilli Bikes O’Shea Racing) are two other riders who had the legs to make the race hard for the sprinters on Friday and could play a similar card on Wednesday.
Open
There may be 130 names on the startlist of the open race but it centres very much around one man—the newly crowned national champion and other half of circuit racing’s power couple—Matt Bostock. The Rapha Cycling Club rider has proved close to unstoppable in recent seasons and appears to be getting even stronger—his performance on Friday night a real tour de force where he refused to be beaten.
The fastest sprinter in the field on paper, the Manxman will also have the luxury of Ollie Wood as a teammate, his fellow Great Britain track team star in the form of his life on the road, backing up his Lincoln Grand Prix success with a miraculous sixth place in the National Road Race Championship, where he went head-to-head with some of the WorldTour’s strongest riders and emerged superior. There is a lot of difference between a 180km road race and hour-long criterium however, Wood not looking quite so sharp on the short circuits this season so far, but he is still a rider few will want to see escape up the road given the breadth of his engine.
Tim Shoreman (Wheelbase CabTech Castelli) won this race in controversial circumstances 12 months ago, although the Commonwealth Games-bound Scot has not looked on his best form during his fleeting road appearances so far this season, and has withdrawn from the startlist. Instead, the Cumbrian squad may try and break up the race courtesy of Super-League leader and defending National Circuit Series champion Tom Armstrong, himself no slouch in a sprint, or Scot Aaron King, who announced himself to the top table of circuit racing via a second place to Bostock in Colne.
Frank Longstaff (DAS Richardsons) caused shockwaves as the surprise winner of the Cambridge Criterium in 2024 with a long-range sprint, the track rider’s ability to hold top speed for a long period of time well suited to the finish of the Otley circuit. However, he will need to survive the pressure exerted on the long climb to capitalise on that. Much improved across the more technical circuits over 2025, a win in Otley would be another step up, but one the Colchester rider is capable of.
Another sprinter to keep tabs on is Will Tidball (Velo Club Villefranche Beaujolais), who returns to the scene of the race he lost after crossing the line a year ago, the former scratch race world champion hoping to get to stand on the top step of the podium this time around.
JAKROO Handsling bring a star-studded team of eight riders with the potential to blow the race apart. Will Truelove and Rowan Baker are now somewhat veterans of the National A scene having finished at the sharp end of the biggest road races in the UK, while the young trio of Dylan Belton Owen, Harrison Dainty, and Oliver Dawson have been in excellent form so far this year at both National and UCI level. The team’s plan will be to make the race hard, something that will play into the hands of RideRevolution Coaching pairing Gabe Dellar and national hill climb champion Harry MacFarlane who will not want the sprinters to have it all their own way.
Away from the Elite Development Teams there are some fascinating entrants on the startlist, from criterium specialists to WorldTour professionals.
Alec Briggs (Tekkerz CC) is very much the former, bringing a strong sprint and excellent bike handling to the party as he looks to build on his third place finish at the City of London Nocturne a fortnight ago and take his first National Circuit Series round since Newark three years ago. To do that however he will have to overcome Nottingham’s Josh Giddings (Lotto Intermarché). Now in his second year as a professional and a key lead-out rider for the Belgian team, he will need to adapt his style of racing to the chaos of a British criterium, with WorldTour riders often able to dictate the direction of the race from the head of affairs.
2025 national champion Cam Mason (Alpecin-PremierTech Development Team) has shown over the past two seasons that he is not only a world-class cyclocross rider, but an excellent criterium one too—backing up his national title with a host of excellent displays when his calendar allows. In possession of excellent bike handling coupled with an ability to sprint out of corners with close to unmatched power, the Scot may find the flowing nature of the final kilometre is not one that plays to his strengths.
Another rider with a strong cyclocross background is former junior national champion Seb Grindley (Lidl-Trek Future Racing), who is on the comeback trail in 2026 after the horror crash in last year’s national road race championship put him on the sidelines for the remainder of the season. Having finished both the Giro Next Gen and Sunday’s road race, the junior world championship silver medallist is one to look out for.
Finally, a trio of riders extend their trip back to Britain for the National Championships from France, led by James Hartley (Team Bricquebec Cotentin), who has stepped up a level since leaving Cycling Sheffield alongside Max Krasinski two years ago, using his fast finish at the end of a demanding race to elevate himself to sixth in the N1 Coupe de France standings. Toby Barnes (UV Aube) won the shortened Sheffield Grand Prix in 2024 and the cyclocross national championship silver medallist from January arrives in good form having won the Grand Prix du Val de Villé earlier in June across the Channel.
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